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Foreign Relations Between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archives Unbound.
- Unbound Archives.
- Archives Unbound
- Unbound Archives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Latin America--Sources.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Caribbean Area--Sources.
- United States--Foreign relations--1929-1933--Sources.
- United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945--Sources.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Latin America--Sources.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Caribbean Area--Sources.
- Diplomatic relations.
- International economic relations.
- Caribbean Area.
- Latin America.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82,212 images).
- Other Title:
- Foreign Relations Between the US and Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944
- Place of Publication:
- Farmington Hills, Michigan. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012.
- Summary:
- During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States periodically intervened militarily in Latin America nations to protect its interests, particularly the commercial interests of the American business community. Whenever a nation felt its debts were not being repaid in a prompt fashion, its citizens' business interests were being threatened, or its access to natural resources were being impeded, military intervention or threats were often used to coerce the respective government into compliance. Such interventions became increasingly unpopular in the United States. Many felt it was too imperialistic for the United States to conduct foreign affairs solely on behalf of American commercial interests. These groups felt that American intervention in Latin America had bred a culture of resentment and anti-Americanism in the region, which was beginning to manifest itself in the form of ultra-nationalist and protectionist measures by those countries' governments. Others objected to the financial cost of military intervention. During the 1930s, U.S. relations with Latin America and the Caribbean changed dramatically. Growing war clouds in Europe and Asia predicated the need for securing resources and allies in the Western Hemisphere. Giving up unpopular military intervention, the U.S. shifted to other methods to maintain its influence in Latin America: Pan-Americanism, support for strong local leaders, the training of national guards, economic and cultural penetration, Export-Import Bank loans, financial supervision, and political subversion. On March 4, 1933, Roosevelt stated during his inaugural address that: "In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor-the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others." This position was affirmed by Cordell Hull, Roosevelt's Secretary of State at a conference of American states in Montevideo in December 1933. Hull said: "No country has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another". This is apparent when in December of the same year Roosevelt again gave verbal evidence of a shift in U.S. policy in the region when he stated: "The definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention." Organized by country, this collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries - with coverage of the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Users will find memoranda, cables, correspondence, reports and analyses, and treaties.
- Notes:
- Date range of documents: 1930-1944.
- Reproduction of the originals from the U.S. National Archives.
- Description based on online resource; title from collection description page (viewed Mar. 20, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 794778503
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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